The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Changelog Media
From GitLab to Kilo Code (Interview)
1 hour 17 minutes Posted Jan 7, 2026 at 9:00 pm.
Welcome to The Changelog
Sponsor: Depot
Start the show!
Sid's story
A health crisis
Doing it in parallel
Why go to China
Sid's health today
The useful medicines
The type of cancer
What's next?
Sponsor: Tiger Data
Working on Kilo
Open core Kilo
Approaching models
The all-in-one challenge
More parallels
Sounds pricey
Future budgets
The ultimate polymath
Sponsor: Notion
Competing with Cursor
Kilo's UX
Claude Web has repos
Sid the polymath?
The developer's future
Hiring?
Wrapping up
Closing thoughts
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Show notes
We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he's been on ever since... a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including Kilo Code, an all-in-one agentic engineering platform, which he also tells us all about.